Notes from the Velvet Underground : the life of Lou Reed /
Lou Reed, who died in 2013, was best known to the general public as the grumpy New Yorker in black who sang 'Walk on the Wild Side'. To his dedicated admirers, however, he was one of the most innovative and intelligent American song writers of modern times, a natural outsider who lived a t...
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Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers,
2015
London : Doubleday, 2015 |
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Table of Contents:
- Coney Island baby, 1942-59
- On to the darkened sea, 1960-4
- Honeybun, Black Jack, Sterl and Moesy, 1964-5
- The exploding plastic inevitable, 1966
- Light and dark, 1967-8
- A new VU, 1968-70
- Solo in the seventies, 1970-3
- Self-parody, 1973-4
- Howling like the devil, 1975-6
- The Arista years, 1976-80
- Second marriage, 1980-7
- New inspiration, 1987-92
- Return to the Velvet Underground, 1992-6
- Love, Lou, 1996-2008
- Nevermore, 2008-13